News from the Nest

Greetings Decatur Central Families,

We have had a great week at Decatur Central High School culminating in a parade of champions on Friday, February 23rd. We celebrated a number of students that qualified for the state championships in swimming and solo and ensemble contests. Truly we are blessed with some incredibly talented students.

This week marks the beginning of a season of testing. Thursday, March 2nd is school SAT day for all juniors. Only juniors are required to attend this day as others can do job shadows, college visits, etc. It is our hope to have a highly conducive environment for testing for our juniors this day and minimizing interruptions would be key to that.

Finally, I encourage you to encourage your students to bring their best effort each day. This time of year, with many days of grey clouds and little sun, we can experience some learning fatigue. Finding ways to encourage your students will help ensure that they bring their best effort each day!

As always...we are better today than yesterday, better tomorrow than today because we are Hawks, its what we do!

Tom Wachnicki

Principal

Home Events this Week:

Thursday, March 2

Junior SAT day

9, 10, 12 grade students optional job shadow, college visit, service, etc. day.

LINK to Athletic Calendar

LINK to District Calendar

Please use the buttons below to keep up with your student's work, attendance and grades!

Decatur Blurb: Summer Days are on their way, and At Your School (AYS) is offering a full-day camp for Decatur Township families (Pre-K – 6) at Blue & Gold Academy from June 5 – July 14. Join AYS and capture the sunshine and positive vibes to help you shine through the summer. Current and waitlisted AYS families who register by February 28 will receive $100 off per child! Learn more and register at www.ayskids.org/summer!

DCHS has many opportunities for students to participate in clubs, activities and the like. Research is very clear that the more a student is involved in the activities of their school the better they do academically. This new section of our newsletter will begin featuring different opportunities we have for your student to get involved at the school!

On Friday, February 23rd we honored students that have qualified for state finals in their respective areas of activity. For swimming, we honored Isaiah Winko. For band we honored:

Levi Bevers, Maria Bland, Jesse Colbert, Madeleine Colbert, Edwin Cruz, Grayson Devening, Jessalyn Dunn, Keonne Fitzgerald, Tiffany Gamarra, Kim Garcia, Amauris Garcia, Brayden Hartloff, Nick Houston, Lucas Johnson, Jaxen Jones, Katherine King, Josh Kinnaman, Garrett Lucas, Isaiah Mason, Evan Miller, Brandon Nealy, Tait Owens, Garrett Peck, Arionna Porter, Adam Ransom, Aiden Romer, Dominic Rybecki, Marie Smith, Emmajen Sosbe, Ray Walker, Justin Wilcher, Brooklyn Woodall.

FFA students were hard at work this week! To kick-off National FFA Week, students hosted an FFA lock-in. Our FFA week committee planned a full agenda filled with FFA Quizbowl, a passionate dodgeball tournament, making teacher appreciation cards & dog toys to donate to a shelter,and ended the night with a mock CDE in Milk Quality & Products! Members and guests also enjoyed some quality chapter bonding time filled with games and snacks!

On Tuesday, we traveled to the Wheeler Mission homeless shelter and served chili to their residents. In preparation of this service learning opportunity, FFA members planned a menu, bought the food, prepared the food, and served it to the community.

Thursday of FFA Week our students took a trip over to Valley Mills elementary to teach the students about environmental sustainability. We read the Lorax and had them complete an activity where they tried to recover oil from an “oil spill." Thank you Valley Mills for allowing our FFA students to spread agricultural literacy to our community!

Thank you to all the students and staff at DCHS who participated in our spirit week and celebrated the awesome things our FFA is doing. Happy National FFA Week!

It may not look like much but this is a really exciting picture. Each Thursday, DCHS' food pantry provides meals to community members in need. Pictured above are meal packs that are being readied for distribution. This past week over 250 district students were supported through this effort. We are #DecaturProud of our Social Action class for their servant leadership!

In Mr. Weisbach's manufacturing classes students are learning to recycle in an interesting way. Students are melting cans into pure aluminum ingots!

We are DecaturProud of our athletics department, the first in the state to receive Quality Program Award from the NIAA! Thank you to all who support our students during our events!

Mrs. Beecher, our amazing media specialist at DCHS, has her own newsletter. Please take a moment to catch it on the following link!

The latest LINK has finally been published. You'll find highlights from semester one of 2022, and January of 2023.

The Beecher Feature newsletters are housed on the DC MC website.